Anonymous what part of speech is "knowing they were not listening" "Part of speech" is the same as "Word class". It applies only to one word at a time. What you quoted has five words, so there are five parts of speech involved: verb, pronoun, verb, adverb, and verb, respectively.
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Anonymous what part of speech is "knowing they were not listening""Part of speech" is the same as "Word class". It applies only to one word at a time. What you quoted has five words, so there are five parts of speech involved: verb, pronoun, verb, adverb, and verb, respectively.